Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Gothikana by RuNyx

16 reviews

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Dementia, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Child death, Gore, Gaslighting, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Body horror

prasenna__'s review against another edition

dark mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Cursing, Suicide, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Death, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

carla20's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mental illness, Death, and Dementia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

faefolkreads's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I wanted to love this book and I just…didn’t.

Loved the dark academia gothic vibes, enjoyed the broody morally grey MC and our shy but strong FMC, and yay for insta-lust/soul-mates!
Where this lost me was it’s uncertainty on if it was wiling to be a paranormal story or not. There were too many unanswered questions, and it felt too wishy-washy in its ambiguity. Were ghosts and curses and witches a things? Was she psychic or insane? I expected more development in terms of the paranormal, which it turns out this story is not. 
Still, an enjoyable story with plot lines that came together in a way I didn’t anticipate.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, and Mental illness

emilycruz1016's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, Vomit, Cursing, Dementia, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

anastashamarie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

⭐4.5/5

So I honestly absolutely loved this book, despite a few nagging problems. If you like gothic dark romance and a dark academic setting, this is 1000% for you.

⚠️TWs: graphic depictions of loved ones completing suicide; explicit sexual content; student-professer; descriptions of hallucinations (possible psychosis); death

🌑 Things I loved: The dark academia setting -- immersive and majorly enthralling.  The callbacks to classic gothic horror. The blurred line between paranormal and psychological. The different subplots that wove interestingly together. The passion/madness of the romantic relationship. Daddy Dom Vad.

🕯️ Things I didn't love:

The 11th hour twist/surprise villain...I just feel like this is a generally overused "gotcha" and not actually a twist like people want it to be.

But that's literally the only thing I didn't like and it by far wasn't enough to ruin the book for me at all.

🏰 Listen, maybe I'm biased because this book is exactly up my alley. Maybe it's all the years of pining to go to boarding school (I grew up in the era of the Gossip Girl and the Private novel series so it hits hard). Maybe it's that I went to a probably-haunted, very old university with all sorts of stories like these. Maybe Verenmore has me in its clutches, too. But maybe this is just a generally great book. The only way for you to know is to read it too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, and Gore

Minor: Dementia, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Taboo relationship (student/professer, both consenting adults)